Detailed 7 Days Best Tanzania Safari

Day 1: Transfer to Lake Manyara National Park

You will be picked up by our guide from your hotel after breakfast and you will be transferred to Lake Manyara National Park for game driving. You will be given packed lunch. This small but scenic park covers an area of only 330 sq km (127 sq miles), of which up to 200 sq km (77 sq miles) is made up of the lake when water levels are high. Lake Manyara is an excellent place for bird watching and a good area to find elephants, giraffes, zebras, baboons, warthogs, buffalos, and maybe even a legendary tree-climbing lion. You will be taken to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay after.

Dinner and overnight stay at Mt. Meru Hotel

Day 2: Transfer to Ngorongoro National Park

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the Ngorongoro Crater for game viewing. You will be given packed lunch. This park is one of the most densely crowded wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals. The crater is often called “Africa’s Eden” and is also considered the eighth natural wonder of the World.

Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze while lions sleep and laze in the sun nearby. At dawn, the endangered black rhino will return to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on the dew-laden grass in the morning mist.

Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Maasai herd their cattle and goats over green pasture and through highland slopes. They live alongside the wildlife here as they have done for centuries. You will be taken to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay after.

Dinner and overnight stay at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

Day 3: Transfer to Serengeti National Park

After breakfast you will drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Serengeti National Park, enjoying game viewing. The Serengeti covers over 6,000 square miles of sprawling, unspoiled landscape.

As soon as you enter the park the wildlife viewing of the migratory animals will begin! You will search for leopards and lions and watch in awe as zebra, and wildebeest appear from amidst the woodlands and plains. You will be taken to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay after.

Dinner and overnight stay at Kubu Kubu Luxury safari tented camp

Day 4 of 7 Days Best Tanzania Safari: Great Migration Mara River

You will wake up early morning and will embark on an early morning game drive in Central Serengeti looking for hunting predators, then return to the camp for breakfast. After breakfast, you will be given a packed lunch and will drive towards the North Serengeti for game drives. The great migration is supposed to be in this area from late July to mid-October crossing the famous Mara River to Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya and back to Serengeti.

You will have a high opportunity to see them crossing while the crocodiles in the river attack them. The North Serengeti has also lots of big cats, elephants, giraffes, impalas, and hippos and it is another good place to see the endangered black rhino. You will return to the lodge after for dinner and an overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight stay at Kubu Kubu Luxury safari tented camp

Day 5: Another Full day in Serengeti National Park

After an early breakfast, you will drive to the Lobo area for game drives. Lobo is the area in the North-East of Serengeti National Park with a unique landscape, and you will have a high opportunity to see leopards, cheetahs, big pride of lions, the rare clip-springer antelopes, and others. In the late afternoon, you will continue to Central Serengeti. You will return to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay after.

Dinner and overnight stay at Kubu Kubu Luxury safari tented camp

Day 6: Transfer to Tarangire National Park

After breakfast and will be driven to Tarangire National Park. The park’s landscape is diverse comprising dotted ancient baobab trees & large termite mounds. Tarangire River is the only source of water during the dry season when the harsh sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, baking the earth a dusty red while during the wet season you will experience dense bush & luscious high grasses. On arrival, you will embark on game drives in the park.

The park is famous for its large elephant population and is also home to zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, waterbuck, baboons, & impala. Predators include lion, cheetah & leopard. The swamps are shared by flocks of birds; green wood hippos, lovebirds, tallish herons, white-bellied go-away birds & giant kingfishers. On drier ground you will find the kori bustard & the heaviest of the flying birds; the ostrich.

After an extensive game drive in the park, you will head back to Arusha for dinner and an overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight stay at Mt. Meru Hotel

Day 7: Transfer to the Airport and departure

After breakfast, you will enjoy an optional city tour and will be transferred to the Airport for your departure to Entebbe after.

End of 7 Days Best Tanzania Safari